The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-18
THE EAST.

AFTER private funeral services over the
late Henry Ward Beecher at the residence
OF the family at Brooklyn on the 10th the
remains were taken to Plymouth Church.
where public services were held After
lying in state in the church for two days
the remains would be transferred to Green
wood Cemetery.
The bodies Of two wealthy misers named
Robert and Cornelia Denmead, who lived
in howell at New Brunswick, N. j., were
discovered on the 10th. They had beer
dead five weeks.
IT was charged on the 10th that Edward
M, Newman, book-keeper Of the insolvent
clothing firm of Levenson & Co., of New
York, was a defaulter to the amount O.
$200,0O0
IN the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives on the 10th the women suffrage
resolution was defeated by vote of 81
to 81.
E. FL. ABBOTT, of Buffalo, N. Y, escaped
to Canada on the 10th with 10000 belong
ing to the Royal Templars, of which he
was Supreme Secretary.
A VETERAN of the war of 1912, named
Jabez Turner, died in New York on the
10th, aged ninety years.
BEING threatened with punishment by
her father for stealing two handkerchiefs
the thirtcen-year-old daughter of John w
Nlblock, Of Philadelphia, committed suicide
on the 10th by hanging
The sheriff at Plymouth, Mass, on the
10th executed Samuel F. Bessie for the
murder of Richard N. Lawton, December
90, 1885.
THE National Baseball League for 1881
is composed of the following clubs: New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,
Pittsburgh, Chicago Detroit and Indianap-
oils. Tho season opens April %.
PUBLIC funeral services were held ir
Brooklyn on the 18th in honor of the late
Henry Ward Beecher. Business was gen
orally suspended throughout the city, and
special memorial services were held in ten
or more churche, which were crowded.
THE Hudson river between Newburgh
and New York was opened to navigation
on the 18th.
BENJAMIN LEAvENTHAL of New York
killed his father and then took his own life
during an alteration on the 18th,
OFFICERS arrested Frank NJ Scott, cash
Ter of the publishing firm of Webster & Co.
of New York, on the 18th, for embezzling
$4,000.
The will of Henry Ward Beecher, which
was filed for probate at New York on the
18th leaves his life insurance $3.50 tc
his widow, and directs that the residue OF
his estate (about 100000 be apportioned
among his children by his executors
WHILE attempting to row across the riv-
er at New York on the 18th the boat upset
and three men were drowned.
TUE late Henry Ward Beecher's remains
1,nt
Brooklyn, on the 18th and deposited in a
vault at Greenwood Cemetery
GEORGE SIMON, aged thirteen, who was
fond of reading blood-and- thunder litera-
ture, hanged himself on the 18th at Phila-
delphia.
On the 18th the yachts Dauntless and
Coronot sailed from New York harbor for
race to Queenstown, Ireland, the prize to
the winner being $4,000.
On account of failing health Obadiah
Wheelock, a rich and eccentric old man OF
Philadelphia, hanged himself on the 18th.
KoRN's HOTEL at Camden, N. j., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th and Charles,
Frederick and Eddie Bearle, aged from
seven to ten years, persisted in the flames.
In an Italian brawl on the 18th over a
woman near Scranton, Pa, two men were
shot dead and another fatally wounded
APPROPRIATE resolutions were passed in
the New York Legislature on the 14th re-
lative to the death of Mr.. Beecher and a
number of eulogies were pronounced.
THE death of Eben F. Pillsbury, once a
Democratic leader in Maine, but of late
years internal revenue collector at Boston,
occurred on the 14th.
NJ. V, B. SMITH, a leather merchant of
New York, failed on the 14th with liabilities
of Sl22, 1913.
The last six coaches of Providence
train weres on the 18th precipitated fifty
feet down through bridge over South
street, in the suourbs of Boston. and
crushed to fragments Twenty-eight per-
sons were instantly killed, eight others re-
ceived fatal injuries, and seventy-five more
were reported as more or less seriously
hurt.